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99 pages of results. 581. Stonehenge - A Calendar? (Forum) [Journals] [Kronos]
... predict seasons and eclipses. Stonehenge does seem to be aligned with celestial indicators of the four main seasons; that is to be expected of farmers, herders, and sea navigators. However, hundreds of years of recorded observation went into compiling the first astronomical/astrological handbooks of Mesopotamia. Precision enough to predict eclipses did not arrive to the Babylonians until about 600 B.C . The Maya, in carving their calendrical notations in stone, made use of writing and a numerical system - a resource not available to nonliterate societies by definition. It is therefore doubtful, in my mind, that this massive undertaking could have been accomplished in one continuous feat by one group of people ...
582. Ancient Calendars [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... (c .1600 AD - Simon Stevin) it was convenient to work with a standard denominator with plenty of factors. The Romans used 12 unciae (hence inches/ounces) since 12 has 4 factors to ten's 2, even though their whole number system was based entirely on the fingers (digits - 5's and 10's). The Babylonians chose 60, but divided the full circle into 360 degrees, so that each would approximate one day's solar motion. The earliest division of the Sun's path was probably into 12 parts [3 ] corresponding to the Sun's domain for one month; this is reflected in our 12-sign zodiac. Further division requires, for simplicity, a multiple ...
583. Discussion Comments From the Floor [Journals] [Aeon]
... I am aware from Professor Heinsohn, there is not a single site in all of Mesopotamia where Assyrian materials lie well above the Akkadian relics. That such a condition should exist is empirically the strongest challenge to the chronology on which Cardona relies. The same thing, according to Heinsohn, is also true with respect to the Persians and Old Babylonians. Why should we accept a chronology that ignores this fundamental evidence? If evidence exists at any single site for any two civilisations that Heinsohn claims are actually one, then that evidence would doom his hypothesis. That no such evidence has been uncovered by a single historian in the two or three years since Heinsohn offered his thesis bodes ill ...
584. Chapter IX: Other Similar Shrines Elsewhere [Books]
... Chapter IX Other Similar Shrines Elsewhere THE observations which, have been made in Babylonia are very discordant among themselves, and at present it is impossible to say, from the monuments in any part of the region along the Tigris valley, whether the temples indicate that the solstices were familiar to the Babylonians. The ancient cities which have so far been excavated and the modern names of the sites are as follows: - - Nineveh = Kouyunjik Babylon = Birs Nimrūd Calah = Nimrūd Erech = Warka Ur of the Chaldees = Mukeyyer Ashur = Kalat Sherkāt Dur Sarginu = Khorsabad Let us take, for instance, the region in the valley near where the Upper Zab joins the main stream ...
585. Conclusion [Books]
... star groups. But eventually the ancients sought to represent diverse aspects and traditions of the great god by sketching them out in the heavens. Could a patternless group of stars have inspired the history of mighty Orion? Rather, the story of Orion preceded astrology. (In fact, Orion is widely acknowledged to be the Greek version of the Babylonian Tammuz-Ninurta, the planet Saturn) And when priest-astronomers finally projected Orion onto the starry dome, they received only the most feeble assistance from the stellar patterns them selves. Likewise, our sun, contrary to long-standing opinion, never inspired the idea of a "supreme god" and never produced an original myth of creation. Only in later ...
586. Eden's Flaming Sword by Isaac Vail [Books]
... and Jove was the sky-god of Greece and Rome, and we must therefore put this tree in the skies. There was the star-bearing tree of the Hesperian Gardens, guarded by the world- serpent Ladon, The Soma Tree of the ancient Hindus and Parsees gave long life to gods and men, and was also a celestial tree. The Assyrio- Babylonian tree spread its shining branches Over the whole heaven, and. this tree was guarded by the "serpent-god of the tree of life". Then the Scandinavians had a world-tree called the "Sacred Ash" and Ygdrasil, and they said its roots penetrated to the under-world and its branches spread all over the skies. The ancient scriptures ...
587. James P. Hogan's Cradle Of Saturn (Book Review) [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... by the Maori, the Indonesian, the Laplander, and the Choctaw. And finally, the titanic electrical discharges between the comet's head and parts of its deformed, writhing tail became clashes of celestial deities depicted virtually identically whether as the Biblical Lord battling Rahab, Zeus and Typhon of the Greeks, Isis and Seth of the Egyptians, the Babylonian Marduk and Tiamat, or the Hindu Shiva or Vishnu patting down the serpent" (page 49) All of this had been discounted by the scientific establishment as ancient fantasy. But then something, seemingly impossible happened, Athena's orbit had altered while it passed around its nearest point to the Sun and its new orbit unmistakably is going to ...
588. The Velikovskian Vol. II, No. 4: Contents [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmited, in any form or by any means, elec-tronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quota-tions embodied in critical articles and reviews. COVER: The symbol on the cover is one of the Babylonian representations of the godess Inanna, or Venus. Immanuel Velikovsky asked Quota pars operis tanti nobis committitur- Which part of this work is committed to us? He presented this question to us regarding the possibility of global catastrophism in human history. Several other scholars have also investigated this concept, presenting other mechanisms as the basis for these cataclysms. ...
589. Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Comets. Ch.9 Axis Shifted (Earth In Upheaval) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Earth in Upheaval]
... Again, we now know that the Sierras attained their present height in the age of man, in Recent time. And if we give credence to the records of earthquakes in the chronicles of the ancient East and in those of the classical age, we shall be amazed at the number of seismic shocks and tremors. One example is the Babylonian records on clay tablets stored in the library of Nineveh, excavated by Sir Henry Layard; another is the Roman records of a later age: in a single year during the Punic Wars (217 BC) fifty-seven earthquakes were reported in Rome.7 From all this it is apparent that seismic activity on our planet subsided very quickly in ...
590. The Velikovskian Vol. II, No. 3: Contents [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmited, in any form or by any means, elec-tronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quota-tions embodied in critical articles and reviews. COVER: The symbol on the cover is one of the Babylonian representations of the godess Inanna, or Venus. Immanuel Velikovsky asked Quota pars operis tanti nobis committitur- Which part of this work is committed to us? He presented this question to us regarding the possibility of global catastrophism in human history. Several other scholars have also investigated this concept, presenting other mechanisms as the basis for these cataclysms. ...
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